{"id":245,"date":"2005-06-14T10:07:58","date_gmt":"2005-06-14T15:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=245"},"modified":"2024-11-20T12:12:02","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T20:12:02","slug":"the-visceral-versus-the-intellectual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=245","title":{"rendered":"The Visceral Versus The Intellectual"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New World Notes brings us this <a href=\"http:\/\/secondlife.blogs.com\/nwn\/2005\/06\/cry_havoctm_and.html\">timely update<\/a> to the ongoing efforts by some in <a href=\"http:\/\/secondlife.com\/\">Second Life<\/a> to create a first person shooter (FPS) within the simulation. This isn&#8217;t a new story or a new idea, but I&#8217;m mentioning it now because it amplifies something I brought up in <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?p=241\">another post<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.corante.com\/importance\/archives\/2005\/06\/13\/virtual_reality_weapons.php#25611\">some comments I made<\/a> regarding that post on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.corante.com\/importance\/\">another blog<\/a>. While academia focuses on the technical, I&#8217;m more interested in the social.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to pull out one line from the comment I wrote and leave it at that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>going from lines of code to 3D visuals will, i believe, have a profound effect on cyberspace not just because of the technology but because of how we <em>react<\/em> to that technology.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New World Notes brings us this timely update to the ongoing efforts by some in Second Life to create a first person shooter (FPS) within the simulation. This isn&#8217;t a new story or a new idea, but I&#8217;m mentioning it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=245\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[113],"class_list":["post-245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retransmit","tag-virtualworlds-metaverse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3025,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions\/3025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}